Lokmanya Tilak Awarad

Sheila Dixit was chosen to receive the Lokmanya Tilak Awarad for 2010. The president of the Lokmanya Tilak Smarak Mandir Trust, Deepak Tilak announced on 22 July 2010 about the decision to honor Dixit with the award. Sheila Dixit would be given the award in recognition of her contribution to politics. The award would be given out on 1 August 2010 at the Tilak Smarak Mandir on the occasion of the 89th death anniversary of Lokmanya Tilak. The award established in 1983 includes a gold medal, a memento, a citation and Rs.1 lakh. The previous recipients of this award included: Indira Gandhi (posthumous), Manmohan Singh, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, M.S. Swaminathan, Rahul Kumar Bajaj, Sivathanu Pillai, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, and Pranab Mukherjee. In 2009 the Lokmanya Tilak Journalist Award was given to N. Ram, Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu.